Tajik
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/taʒic/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tajik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common surname.
- IRIran≈1 in 99K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 389
- SESweden1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 389 (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tajik counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #83 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 389 | 1 | Tajik | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Tajik | 13 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Tajik | 42 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Tajik | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Tajik | 53 |
| SE Sweden | — | 459 | 1 in 22K | 459 | Tajik | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 190 | 1 in 29K | 190 | Tajik | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 149 | 1 in 37K | 149 | — | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Tajik | 13 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tajik is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A person from Tajikistan or of Tajik descent.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amir Tajikb. 1968IRIranian singer
- Abdolreza Tajikb. 1971IRIranian journalist and politician
- Athar Ali Tajikb. 1982NONorwegian politician
- Hadia Tajikb. 1983NONorwegian politician
- Samantha Tajikb. 1983CAIranian-Canadian model
- Ahmad TajikAFAfghan field hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 459 | #2,012 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 190 | #8,343 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 149 | #9,406 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 61 | — |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #273 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tajik?
- A machine transcription gives /taʒic/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What are other forms of the name Tajik?
- In the etymology graph, Tadjik is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tajik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Tajik in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tajik.
- How common is the name Tajik?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 459 people named Tajik, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Tajik compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Tajik is the 83rd most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tajik?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tajikThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tajik” — the 83rd most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.